Large dish with scale border; in the center, an imperial Roman figure and the letter N crowned

c. 1510/1540

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 42.6 cm (16 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.320

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris;[1] purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased February 1910 by Peter A. B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.
[1] This dish may well be the one "with the Emperor Nero, initial and crown, surrounded by scale ornaments, in metallic luster, 16 3/4 in. diameter" sold from the collection of Auguste Ricard de Montferrand of Saint Petersburg at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 14-16 November 1859, no. 237.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Sixteenth-Century Italian Maiolica; Selections from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and the National Gallery of Art's Widener Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982-1983, no. 16.

Bibliography

1935

  • Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 55, as Deruta, c. 1520.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 12, as Deruta, about 1520.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 124-125, no. 4, repro., as Deruta, first third of sixteenth century.

1993

  • Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timonthy H. Wilson. Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 147-149, repro. 148.

Inscriptions

in front of the figure's face: crowned N

Markings

Kann collection labels 8, 177

Wikidata ID

Q62131062

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